The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics

by Editor: Rosamond Rhodes (The Mount Sinai Medical Center New York); Editor: Leslie P. Francis (University of Utah); Editor: Anita Silvers (Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University)

• ISBN13: 9780470680605
• ISBN10: 0470680601
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics is a guide to the complex literature written on the increasingly dense topic of ethics in relation to the new technologies of medicine. Examines the key ethical issues and debates which have resulted from the rapid advances in biomedical technology Brings together the leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, medicine, theology and law, to discuss these issues Tackles such topics as ending life, patient choice, selling body parts, resourcing and confidentiality Organized with a coherent structure that differentiates between the decisions of individuals and those of social policy.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Individual Decisions About Clinical Issues

Patient Decisions

Autonomy, the Good Life and Controversial Choices

Individual Responsibility and Reproduction

Patient and Family Decisions about Life-Extension and Death

Individual Decisions of Physicians and Other Health Care Professionals

The Professional Responsibilities of Medicine

Truth telling

Medical Confidentiality

Patient Competence and Surrogate Decision-Making

Ending Life

Discrimination in Medical Practice: Justice and the Obligations of Health Care Providers to Disadvantaged Patients

Institutional Practices, Ethics, and the Physician

Legislative and Judicial Decisions About Social Policy

Liberty

Reproductive Choice

Public Policy and Ending Lives

Drug Legalization

Selling Organs, Gametes, and Surrogacy Services

The Patient as Victim and Vector: The Challenge of Infectious Disease for Bioethics

Uses of Science in Medical Ethics

Justice

Allocation of Scarce Resources

Just Caring: The Challenges of Priority-Setting in Public Health

Justice and the Financing of Health Care

Judgment and Justice: Evaluating Health Care for Chronically Ill and Disabled Patients

Justice in Research on Human Subjects

Ethics of Disclosure Following a Medical Injury: Time for Reform?

Pre-existing Conditions: Genetic Testing, Causation and the Justice of Medical Insurance

Index

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